anaheim-gazette 1916-04-13

ALL-DAY MEETING AT FREMONT SCHOOL FOURTH DISTRICT CONGRESS OF MOTHERS AND PARENT-TEACHERS IN SESSION SATURDAY INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE PROGRAM WILL BE PRESENTED TO THE VISITORS The fourth district of the California Congress of Mothers and Parent Teachers Associations will hold a regular all-day meeting at the Fremont school, Anaheim, Saturday, April 15th. This is an open meeting and all are invited to attend. At 2:30 o'clock Prof. E. W. Hauck of the Anaheim high school will deliver an address on "Play, an Element in Education." Below is the program: Morning Session 10:00—Devotionals, Rev. David Todd Gillimor. Address of Welcome—Mrs. J. L. Van der Veer. Response—Mrs. W. H. McElne, Satna Ana. Reading of minutes. Appointment of committees. 10:30—Parliamentary Drill—Conducted by Mrs. S. W. Stanley. Talk on Juvenile Court and Probation—Mrs. W. B. Tedford. Election of officers. 11:00—Reports of Departments and local Parent Teachers' associations. bomb-plotting, said this: "Yes, I would myself blow up munition factories. I would give up everything else and go from one place to another, carrying ruin with me, if I only could warn the workers in time to save themselves. That I would do gladly and more—for Germany." And this is the lady to whom Americans have paid a million dollars, perhaps, in gate money for musical culture during the last decade! Surely culture with a "k" is a hard proposition. All this seems to mean that the European empires will look upon the United States, not as a nation, but as a great raw country, on which to plant colonies, where people shall be made to learn, not loyalty to the country of their adoption, but allegiance to the countries whence they came; to gather up money for the enrichment of these countries, and to grow men for the European armies of the future—which, by the way, we hope will never exist. However, the principle is the same, whether there is prevention of armament or not. Obviously, the United States must protect herself against such exploitation. We have room in this country for many more good people, but we should make it very sure that American opportunity is given only to those who are willing to aspire to American citizenship by renunciation of foreign allegiance at the port of arrival, by all who come for settlement. We have now plenty of British-Americans, German-Americans, Italian-Americans, and all other hyphenates, not en route to citizenship, to last us for a century. There are enough of them to declare our national admiration of all those countries, and we can live in love with them so long as they keep the peace. Henceforward we should require declaration of intention for citizenship with all that... It is probable that Europe may emerge from the present war thoroughly sobered and possibly repenant for her crimes against humanity. There are many indications that internal revolutions will follow external conflicts. In some cases there may be changes in forms of government which are anti-humanistic and thoroughly hateful in this era of the age of man. In other cases there may be little change in outward form, but notable changes in standards and measurements of human classifications. In all cases there promises to be striking change in spiritual ideals and in the conceptions of human rights. In all these ways coming generations must realize whatever compensation it can derive from the sufferings of this generation. It is not reasonable to expect warring nations to see that for this alone they GASOLINE The following resolution has been introduced in the lower house at Washington by Congressman Charles H. Randall of the Ninth California district: Whereas, There was recently discovered by an employee of the United States government a process for the manufacture of gasoline, which, according to official announcement to the public, would reduce the cost of production of gasoline 50 per cent, and Whereas, This discovery was given freely to the public and to manufacturers with the purpose of having its great value go freely to the users of gasoline, and Whereas, For certain mysterious reasons, manufacturers of gasoline have increased the price of gasoline more than 50 per cent, since this discovery was announced to the world, and Whereas, Crude materials from which gasoline is manufactured have not advanced in price, nor have they ignal allegiance at the port of arrival, by all who come for settlement. We have now plenty of British-Americans, German-Americans, Italian-Americans, and all other hyphenates, not en route to citizenship, to last us for a century. There are enough of them to declare our national admiration of all those countries, and we can live in love with them so long as they keep the peace. Henceforward we should require declaration of intention for citizenship, with all that such declaration implies. To have a lot of ostensible Americans, wearing togs to foreign thrones under their shirt-collar, is not only a menace to American solidarity and patriotism, but a potential disturbance of the peace, which should not be longer tolerated. We have not taken either to much interest in so-called "American" organizations or policies because they seem to be at enmity with the attitude of the United States, as maintained by our ancestors, but now, with all the world inclined to look upon this country as a place to pick up things to send home or a place to blow up when any alien thinks he has made all he can out of it, we are gaining conviction that the old political outcry, "America for Americans," may be getting to be rather a good and necessary thing. pu nev(etaoin etaoin taoin aoinnnnn PUBLIC LAND How many solve the uneasy American of them will those who meet try to help put accomplish that "Such a bill Congressman It is not a revive provides for all the plan proper port of the dept. In his report retaining land der supervision formed by departure culture and o were to help They were to off of the land as used it. In exempt from retary made no inflation of "The Crosses the secretary It provents inflethe only way government is lands and take use for its own be profitable not for specula" "The United acres of arabs which are unde In other cases there may be little change in outward form, but notable changes in standards and measurements of human classifications. In all cases there promises to be striking change in spiritual ideals and in the conceptions of human rights. In all these ways coming generations must realize whatever compensation it can derive from the sufferings of this generation. It is not reasonable to expect warring nations to see that for this alone they are murdering each other; they must have visions of empires saved or extended to keep their ruling classes and their financiers at their job of leading and supporting the wretched business and to develop patriotic fervor in their subject masses. Therefore, it is not wise for neutral nations, which will still have to live upon the world, to take too seriously the declarations which belligerent nations make or what they will do in event of their victories—for they all still talk of winning. Great Britain has published a plan for solidifying her empire and inter-trading between the parts of her dominion on five continents, discriminating against the rest of the world. Italy has declared that she will make it "possible for Italian children in America to have an Italian as well as an American education." Professors are to be sent from Italy and specialists in all kinds of Italian culture are to be employed to live in Italian settlements in America. Italy has no intention of rendering her emigrant's disloyal to the United States. She proposes through Italian culture to enable them to attain the same degree of material prosperity that German kultur has given to the German-American." But it seems that kultur is not all the German-American would like to give us. A prima donna, whose husband was recently arrested on suspicion of freely to the public and to manufacturers with the purpose of having its great value go freely to the users of gasoline, and Whereas, For certain mysterious reasons, manufacturers of gasoline have increased the price of gasoline more than 50 per cent, since this discovery was announced to the world, and Whereas, Crude materials from which gasoline is manufactured have not advanced in price, nor have they been reduced in production at the wells; Therefore, be it Resolved by the senate and the house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled: That the president be urged to recommend to congress such legislation as will provide for the manufacture of gasoline by the government and its sale at cost in order that the people may receive the benefit of the inventive skill of government officials, rather than to have the benefit inure entirely to rapacious manufacturers. Congressman Randall is to be complimented upon the move he has made to relieve the gasoline situation. There is no reason why the government cannot manufacture gasoline, and, if necessary, develop wells for the crude oil supply. The statement by Mr. Randall, that process discovered by a government employe would reduce the cost of the manufacture of gasoline 50 per cent, and the result—a tremendous advance in the price of this popular fluid—shows to what extent some manufacturers will take advantage of a situation over which they have complete control. When such conditions arise it is high time that the federal government should take some action to relieve the deplorable condition of affairs that surround the gasoline industry in this country. FIRST ARTESIAN WELL IN ORANGE COUNTY Put Down by Robert McFadden Forty-Five Years Ago Forty-five years ago Sunday, Robert McFadden opened the first artesian well in what is now Orange county. Looking over an old diary a few days ago, McFadden discovered an entry which gives the exact date. It was April 9, 1871. "The well was put down about where the Southern California Sugar company factory now stands," said McFadden. "A man named Porter and I had a small dairy there. We afterward leased it to Dan Boyd and John Cubbon. We had been using surface water, and it certainly was bad. Porter knew a man over at Compton who had some well tools. This man had an artesian well, the only one that we knew anything about in Southern California. We got hold of his tools, and went to work. "We shoved down a four inch pipe, using a four by six scantling to force it down. When we were down about forty feet we struck clay and we started in with a carpenter's auger about three inches in diameter. With that we bored through ten or twelve feet of clay, and then struck artesian water, lots of it. It flowed eleven inches over the top of a pipe standing ten feet above the ground. "People came for miles to see that well. Soon afterward 'Uncle Billy' Spurgeon put down a well and got artesian water on the south side of Fourth street between Sycamore and Broadway, and that well afterward was the center of the city water works for a time. Santa Ana was started by Deputy District Attorney Arthur Koepsel who spent some years and considerable coin posting himself on just such situations as the one in court. Bocanegra, however, had his own ideas on the law and was in no wise bashful about sharing them with those present. His trump card was 'You have to prove it.'" When it came to the point of looking over the two sets of arguments it was found that Koepsel's conformed more to the statute book than Bocanegra's did. The Mexican quoted law fluently and forcibly but the chief trouble with his quotations seemed to be that they couldn't be found anywhere in print. In view of the evidence presented the court found it necessary to give the budding lawyer sixty days in the county jail. NEWS NOTES OF COUNTY Wanta Franchise Extended— Ferdinand R. Bain, president and general manager of the Southern Counties Gas Company, has addressed a communication to the Orange county board of supervisors requesting them to offer for sale a franchise which will allow the laying of gas lines in the beach towns which are now without a gas supply. The franchise asked extends the boundaries of the franchise now held by the Southern Counties company southward to include the beach towns. The present franchise extends only a few miles south of Santa Ana and thence directly east to the coast. The new franchise would include all the land along the coast from below Bay City down below Balboa. Auto and Motorcycle Collide— Alva Fletcher of San Diego, riding a BUCK BEEBE TO STRIVE FOR CHAMPIONSHIP Will Run in Fast Company at Los Angeles Saturday Speaking of the track meet next Saturday on Bovard field a Los Angeles sporting editor says: "Every event at the A. A. U. track and field championships will be a hot and exciting event between at least two men. In many cases the struggle will be between many more. But already the talk has centered down to two events and four athletes. All the others are pushed back into the wings. These two events are the high hurdles and the half-mile, and the four athletes are Fred Kelly, Earl Thompson, Ray Adkinson and Clarence Beebe." The race of importance is the half-mile between Clarence Beebe and Ray Adkinson. The fact that Bonnett is to be one of the runners does not even seem to excite comment. Coach Stanton of Pomona has said that Ray Adkinson is the most promising half-miler the south has had. At the close of the conference season he said: "Give me a chance to train Adkinson from now to the A. A. U. and he'll break the record in the half-mile. He has never trained for that race this season. I've been trying to make a quarter miler out of him, because the Huns lacked one. In spite of his success he is not one. It was his grit more than anything else that won the races against Cook. But let him train from now till the A. A. U. and he'll run under two minutes—away under it." Clarence Beebe is now just beginning to hit his stride. Tipton, the old U. S. C. captain and fellow-townsman of the runner, says that Adkinson will have to run in 1m. 57s to win. Since the meet with California Beebe has been training hard. He has run in the north since then and PUBLIC LAND FOR UNEMPLOYED How many congressmen want to solve the unemployed problem, asks the American Economic League. All of them will say they want to and those who mean what they say, will try to help put through a bill that will accomplish that result. "Such a bill has been introduced by Congressman Robert Crosser of Ohio. It is not a revolutionary measure. It provides for a practical application of the plan proposed in the recent report of the department of labor. In his report to Congress, the secretary of labor proposed opening the remaining lands to the unemployed under supervision of a board to be formed by department of labor, of agriculture and of the interior. Settlers were to be helped through a loan fund. They were to be secure in possession of the land as long as they occupied and used it. Improvements were to be exempt from taxation. But the secretary made clear that there must be no inflation of land values. "The Crosser bill provides all that the secretary of labor recommended. It provents inflation of land values on the only way that can be done. The government is to retain title to the lands and take the annual rental value for its own use. That will let it be profitable to hold land for use but not for speculation. "The United States has 935,000,000 acres of arable land, 400,000,000 which are under cultivation." "The Crosser bill provides all that the secretary of labor recommended. It proves inflation of land values on the only way that can be done. The government is to retain title to the lands and take the annual rental value for its own use. That will let it be profitable to hold land for use but not for speculation. "The United States has 935,000,000 acres of arable land, 400,000,000 of which are under cultivation. "Under the Crosser bill opportunities for all the unemployed will be open in occupations, such as agriculture, stock raising, lumbering and similar industries. Other industries will naturally develop. Since much of the land must first be irrigated, or otherwise prepared before it can be opened for use, the board of colonization, which is to supervise the matter, will have to employ men at the very beginning who will later settle on the prepared lands. "It may be said that all the unemployed are not fit for such work. Perhaps not, but many of them are, and these will reduce the number of men looking for jobs. Besides many men at work in other occupations will want to leave vacancies for these unemployed men who do not want to go on the public lands. And every worker will have a sense of security hitherto unknown, in the knowledge that a steady job on the land awaits him, whensoever he may want to take it." Your ship may never come in, but if you save the pennies and place them in a term account with the Anaheim National bank, it may become a ferry boat to take you across some dangerous stream when you need to get Dr. M. H. Henderson, Dentist, Suite 1, Mullinix bldg., Anaheim. Expert piano tuning. F. W. Schmidt. Doyle Must Refund— R. M. Doyle will have to pay the Bank of Garden Grove $100. With that decision, a jury in superior court reached a verdict in an action that was appealed from the Garden Grove township court, an action that involved an over-paymgt of a check. The plaintiff asserted that on August 16 R. M. Doyle presented a $200 check at the bank. It was drawn upon a Los Angeles bank. At first sight the figures looked like $300, though the writing was plaintly "Two hundred." The assistant cashier stated that he paid Doyle $300. Later the mistake was found, and Doyle was asked for the $100. He refused. His answer denied the allegations made by the plaintiff. Attorney H. C. Head, representing the bank, secured judgment for the bank in the Garden Grove township. Attorneys Heardrick & Ardis of Los Angeles took an appeal for Doyle, and the case was tried in the superior court. Judgment was the same as in the lower court. The bank has $125 in a Los Angeles bank under attachment. Mexican Gets Sixty Days— Ysmael Bocanegra lost his case on his first attempt at being a lawyer when he appeared before justice Armor Friday morning to defend Ysmael Bocanegra, in other words himself. The charge was fighting with Mr. and Mrs. Trinidad Estrada at La Habra; also "cussing" in a profane manner. Bocanegra was opposed in the trial races against Cook. But let him train from now till the A. A. U. and he'll run under two minutes—away under it. "Clarence Beebe is now just beginning to hit his stride. Tipton, the old U. S. C. captain and fellow-townsman of the runner, says that Adkinson will have to run in 1m. 57s to win. Since the meet with California Beebe has been training hard. He has run in the north since then and has been on the track every day. He looked better at Bovard Field Sunday than he has since he was an Anaheim prep and the wonder of the south. Among the other U. S. C. men who were on the track Sunday were Ken Johnson and Tipton. Tipton is going to run a lap on the Trojan relay team, and the booster of Beebe says that the Occidental relay team is going to get in in the neck from Cromwell's revised four. There were four school elections in Orange county Friday in which women were candidates. In three of them they won easily, and in fourth the woman ran an even race with her opponent. At Orange W. M. Brown was defeated for grammar school trustee by Mrs. Lola Bennett by a vote of 548 to 333 in the hottest school election the district has ever had. Mrs. Lillian Humphrey was chosen at Laguna Beach over Samuel Dungan by a vote of 32 to 9 and at Tustin Mrs. S. W. Stanley defeated A. L. Cotant 150 to 91. At Tustin it was known that Mrs. Stanley opposed allowing the boys to play baseball on the school grounds on Sundays. In the Katella district there was a tie, 57 to 57, between Mrs. Clair Head and W. W. Manter. Expert piano tuning, F. W. Schmidt. LADIES! Meet Your Friends at Masonic Temple, Anaheim DAILY 2 P.M. Tuesday, April 18, to Saturday, Apl 22 Domestic Science AND Cooking Classes Given by SPERRY FLOUR CO. Classes are under the personal direction of Mrs. B. De Graf. Classes are absolutely free. Nothing for sale. Do not forget date. Do not miss them Annual Barbecue Registration for the Orange County Wine Company’s Annual Picnic and Barbecue to be held May 28th, will open on Saturday, April 15th, at the office, 133 West Center Street. If you want to attend the Barbecue drop in and register. Orange County Wine Co. Orange County's Greatest Liquor House. 133 W. Center St. BUY YOUR Lawn Seed BUY YOUR Lawn Seed HERE We Handle a Guaranteed Line of Lawn Mowers Rubber Hose Garden Tools, etc. DICKEL'S Try a Gazette Ad. It Pays You